Corn-harvester.



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W. M. PIATT. CORN HARVESTER, APPLICATION FILED DEC. 31, 1912.

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Specification of Letters Patent;

Patented July 8,1913.

Application filed December 8 1, 1912. ,Serial No. 739,539.

.er' and I do declare the f llo\\'ing to be a full, clear, and exa'ct description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same. f

This invention relates to harvesters, and more especially to those adapted forcutting and binding corn automatically; and the object" of the same is to improye the mechanism for ejectingthe bn nd les or shocks of corn from the rear-of the machineso carefully that the shocks will be deposited upon the ground unbroken and left standing as the machine progresses forward. This'object is carried out by mounting the-jib on swinging legs so that it will be maintained operator.

ever in a horizontal position, and moving it from its normally forward position to the rear in conjunction with the contemporaneous movement of a pair of endless aprons-all driven by the power mechanism of the machine and under the control of the will be found in the following specification,

- and 'ace shown in the accompanying drawings wherein- Eigure 1 is aplan View of the machine complete, and Figs. and 3 are longitudinal sections taken substantially on the lines '2-2 and 3-3 of Fig. 1, the former showing the jib as in its forward. or normal position and Fig. 3 showing it moved to the rear. Fig. t

is a detail in transverse section, taken on the line 44 of Fig. 1. Figs. 5 and 6 are cross sections on the lines 5 5 and, 66, looking in the direction of the arrows. Fig. 7 is an enlarged detail giving an end elevation of one of the forward rollers of the endless carrier.

The present ejecting mechanism is an improvement on similar features illustrated and described in my prior United States Patents Kumhcr 1741.701 dated May. ll), 1892, and 501,101, dated July 11. 1892}. lly preference l employimH-h of the same structure shown in those patents, viz: Mounted on the main wheel M and on another wheel W is a framework F haying guards G and G tltLits front properly spaced to adapt the machine to out two rows of standing corn, Just in The details of this construction rear of said guards is the cutting apparatus C, and in proper relation thereto are the upper and lower packers P and l the knotting mcchanisi'i'i K, and the needle Nall driven by suitable connection with the main axle A so that the corn stalks as they are cut pass ore the table -'l alongside the jib J and are packed backward against the spring fingers S, and from't'ime to time the bundle thnsformed is tied into a shockin a manner well known and needing no further detailed description. The purpose of the present in vention is to improve the means for eject-. ing this shock from the rear end of themaehine by manually controlled mechanism operated from the main axle A, as will now be explained in detail.

The jib J is movably supported on two pairs of upwardly converging legs 1 whose upper ends are pivoted at 2 to the jib near the frontend of the latter and'at about its mid-length, and whoselower ends are-ply oted at to, a. suitable support in the framework- F; and 5 is a .rod connecting one of these legs with a wrist pin 6 in a crank wheel, 7 which is mounted on a stub shaft 8 suitably supported from the framework. Any suitable means may be provided for rotating this crank wheel from the main axle -A, and under the control of the operator,

but by preference I provide it with teeth so that it becomes agear, and'engage with it a smaller gear 9 fast on the inner end of a shaft 10 which has any suitable form of clutch mechanism 1.1 capable of being thrown into or out of connection with the main axle by means of a lever 12. the operator moves this lever in one direction, the power gear 9 rotates the larger" gear, and its wrist pin causes the connect- 'ing rod 5 to move the jib from its forward or normal position as best seen in Fig. 2, to the rear to -the position best 'seen'in Fig. 3. When in the forward position, a. tongue 13 pivoted to the front end of the jib at 1st and passing through a guiding eye 15 carried by a suitable support 16 on the main frame,

hangs beneath the front rod or what might be called the ridge-pole 17 of tl1e mtermediate guide G, and is housed therein as seen in Fig. 2; but when the jib is moved to the rear to the position shown in Fig. 3, this tongue is drawn through the eye15 and obviously dragsunder the corn stalks where t-heylie across the jib as seen in Fig. 4, to

, which position they were thrown by the uphenper-packers P which are longer and larger than thelo-wer packers P as usual. On the vother hand, "when the jib moves forward to resume its normal .posititm, the tongue 13 is pushed through'the eye 15 and offers no. rcslstance to the entrance of corn stalks which are out meanwhile. Coacting with this jib and tongue is a pair of endless aprons moving overproper ro1lers 2l and 22 whereof-=-tl1e latter is connected by pawl-andratchet mechanism 22 with-the shaft 10,

and these aprons constitute carriers moving between upright guides 23 and 24 on the framework, the latter standing just outside thelegs 1 which support the jib, as best seen in F ig. 4. It follows that whenthe lever 12 ismoved' to throw thefclutch into engagement withthe power "gear on-- the axle A, rotation of the shaft-1O causes the movebodily transported ,to'a'nol ejected from the rear endof themachine, and itdrops onto the ground in an upright position, and the rear end of the jib" is drawn out from it.

lVh-ile the shaft 10 is making a sufficient number of revolutions to carry the aprons 20 tothe rear, the driven gear '7 is making one completerevoliltion. The movement of its wrist pin 6' from a forward position as shown in-Fig. 2 to a rearward position as shown in.Fig. 3. swings the jib to the rear and causes the latter to assist inthe ejection of the shock;- and the other half-revolution of this gear 7 (after the shock has been dropped) moves the 'jib back to its original I '})OSiti0Il ready to receive other stalksin the formation of another shock. lllean'while a few stalks will have'been cut by the harvester asit. progresses over the ground, but these accumulatev alongside the tongue13 which then stands substantially horizontalas seen in Fig. 3, and'as the jibmoves to the front to resume its normal position'this tongue is pushed through these accumulated stalks wlthout disarranging them. The

packers P and P push incoming-stalks against those already in place and others follow, so that eventually all the stalks cut are pushed back over the aprons and against the spring fingers vS in a mailer well known in this art.

i I do not wish to be confinedto the precise details of construction, norto the materials and proportions of parts.

- lVhatis'elaimed as new is:

' L bundle ejector for binders comprisa pair of endless carriers spaced from thcr, guides along the sides of said carriers, two pairs of legs pivotally mountshaft at. will.

2. A bundle ejector forbinders comprising a pair ofendless carriers spaced from each other, guides along" the sides of said carriers, two pairs of legs pivotally mounted at their lower ends on the guides, a jib pl'votally supported between the upper ends of'said pairs of legs 'a driven gear having a wrist pin, connections between the-latter and one of said legs, a power shaft through the forward rollers of said carriers, a. gear on this shaft meshing with said driven gear, and a clutch element on said shaft; combined with a harvesting machine, binding mechanism thereon, and a driving shaft therein carrying a clutch element adapted to be engaged with the one above mentioned.

3. 'Inan' ejector for corn harvesters, the

combination with three guides at the frontof the machine, a. support rising froln the intermediate guide, and an eye carried thereby; of a jib, a plurality of pivoted legs movably supporting the same, a. tongue hinged to the front end of the jib and passing through said -eye,,.and means for swinging the jib' backward and forward while the tongue slides through said eye and its front end rises and falls within said intermediate guide.

v 4:. In, an ejector for -corn.harvesters. the

combination with three guides at the front of the machine, a support rising from the intermedia by; of a ib guide,and an eye carried there- "lu'rality of pivoted legs mow 1 P I ably supportn'ig the same, a tongueplvotally connected with the jiband slidably mounted through sald eye, a P2111- of endless'car- -riers disposed alongside the lower ends'of said legs, and means forsivinging the jib forward and backward and meanwhile driving said carriers.

5. In an ejector for corn harvesters. the combination with three guides at the front of the machine,'asupport rising from the intermediate guide, and-an eye carried thereby; of a jib, a plurality of pivoted legs movably supporting the same, a tongue pivotally connected with the front end of the jib and slidably mounted through said eye, a pair of endless aprons disposed alongside the lower ends'of said legs, a driven gear having a wrist pin. connect-ionsv betu een said pin and one of the legs, a smaller v driv-' ing gear meshingwith the driven gear and disposed between the front rollers of said *arriers, and a single shaft on which said smaller gear rollers are mounted, the propbrtiun of said gears being such that whilethe driven gear is making one complete rev- OlLl'ClOn the clrlvlng gear and rollers make sufiicient revolutions to carry The upper side of the endless'aprens around the rear rollers thereof.

6.1K bundle ejector for binders cbmprising a pair ofiencl-less carriers spaced from each other, glucles between'sald earners, two pans of legs p lvot ally mounted at then lower; encl'sfon the guides, 21 'jib pivot'all x supported at 'the upper ends of said pai rs of legs, av wheelhaving a WllSl pin, a link connecting the latter and one of sand legs," and means for rotatlng sand Wheel at Wlll. I

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